[Marxism] SMBIVA on Obama's Cairo speech: Pious hope (and no change)

[Lajany Otum <lajany_otum@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pious hope (and no change)

By Michael J. Smith on Thursday June 4 05:42 PM

Here's Obie, laying down the law to a group of benighted towelheads:


Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence 
and killing is wrong and does not succeed. For centuries, black 
people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the 
humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won full 
and equal rights. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon 
the ideals at the centre of America's founding. 


As I often ask: Where do you start with this stuff -- this emetic concoction 
of falsehood, sanctimony, and hypocrisy?

"Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed." 
Really? What were Stalingrad and Omaha Beach about? Gettysburg? Bunker Hill? 
The storming of the Bastille? Horatio at the bridge? Thermopylae?

Needless to say, Obie forgot to send the Israelis the same message.

The whole sick-making performance is like this -- Parson Obama, master 
of the drone aircraft and the cluster bomb for six days in the week, 
ascends the pulpit on the seventh and tells everybody -- well, almost 
everybody -- to renounce violence.

On Obie's one hand, the Israelis. On his other, the Palestinians. Obie 
weighs, Obie judges, Obie sits on the throne and apportions the deservedness 
and destiny of nations. So let it be written! So let it be done!

There would be a certain Cecil B DeMille grandeur in it if he could assume a 
Pharaonic manner, but the closest he can get is Pharisaical -- the 
I-mean-business 
furrowed brow, the moralizing scowl, the hollow sepulchral voice of a 
Methodist parson with a secret vice.

The qualities that his admirers admired him for -- intelligence, moral 
seriousness, high purpose, the whole Eagle Scout package -- curdle, it seems, 
once mixed with actual power, into a filthy foetid smarmy preacherly pustular 
effluvium worthy of Woodrow Wilson himself.

As Galilee's most illustrious son once observed:

For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful 
outwardly, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

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